We do this because we have no choice, because we must advance daily or we will fail eternally.
Lyndon Johnson
The Public Record
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Texas and began his political career as a U.S. Representative in 1937, later becoming a U.S. Senator in 1949. Johnson ascended to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his administration is noted for significant domestic policies, including the Great Society programs aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice. His legislative achievements included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid.
There are serious problems there, but also things that are better in a good many situations than we anticipated.
I don't think, other than what the letter reflects, we ought to speculate on just what condition I'll be in when I retire, and what position I'll be able to take or assume.
Your Government and you Americans are going to successfully conclude that war that you have declared on these ancient enemies.
Measles vaccine today promises victory over disease which kills from 20 to 30 percent of all the people of other countries.
The artificial kidney gives invalids new hope for normal and productive life.
The American goal is the complete eradication of malaria and cholera from the entire world.
And as the leader of this country, I plan to set some goals--some realistic, ambitious, farsighted goals--goals of vision.
Mrs. Johnson has done quite a bit of work visiting several libraries all over the country.
We are determined that research and discovery yield results which not only increase man's knowledge but the strength of his body and the length of his life.
The American goal is to eliminate completely the disability and the death among children that is caused by rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
All of this time, every minute that your President is doing something, is accounted for.
Here on this quiet battleground our Nation today leads a worldwide war on disease.
This bill that I will sign shortly, will provide the bricks and the mortar for the biomedical research laboratories throughout this entire Nation.
I said it would be hoped to be completed by the end of this term, that means by January 1969, we hope.
If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are…





